heave-ho

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. ünlem An exclamation used when pulling, especially by sailors while pulling on a rope.

   “Heave ho! up they hoisted their prize, dripping with moisture, and festooned with verdant water-moss.”

2. isim A cry of heave-ho.

   “Over the water came the clank and rattle of chains and the "Heave-ho!" of the sailors getting ready for departure.”

3. isim An ejection; a forced removal; a dismissal (as from a job or relationship).

   “When I was a kid—well, more of a kid than I am now—I used to believe he really was a bishop—unfrocked, of course, or ungaitered, or whatever they call it when they give a bishop the heave-ho.”

4. fiil To pull forcefully.

   “They were heave-ho-ing, stopping and unstopping, pawling, catting, and fishing, for three hours;”